Race, Crime and Injustice
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Shanell Sanchez, PhD, Southern Oregon University
Jessica René Peterson, PhD, Southern Oregon University
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Publisher: Open Oregon Educational Resources
Language: English
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Table of Contents
- Message to Students
- How to Navigate This Book Online
- How to Read This Book Offline
- About this Book
- Chapter 1: Thinking Sociologically: Race and Ethnicity in U.S. Society
- Chapter 2: Prejudice, Racism, and Discrimination
- Chapter 3: Racialized Socialization and Racialized Social Control
- Chapter 4: Theories of Race and Crime
- Chapter 5: Policing in America
- Chapter 6: Racial Justice in Rural Communities
- Chapter 7: Punishment and Racialized Responsed to Crime
- Chapter 8: The Racialization of Juveniles for "Justice"
- Chapter 9: Racism, Drug Policy, and the Criminal Justice System
- Glossary
- References for Glossary Terms
- Image Descriptions
- Transcripts
- About the Authors
- Publisher's Message to Instructors
- Instructor Resources
- Manuscript Development Process
- License Statement
- Additional Resources
About the Book
Welcome to the Race, Crime, and Justice Open Educational Resource! This book was developed with a diversity, equity, and inclusion framework. This course is about race, so our primary focus will be on the experiences of people of color (POC) in the criminal justice system. An important aspect of this book is the various spotlight examples we weave throughout the chapters to demonstrate the application of materials. We hope to increase awareness of the experiences of people of color, both historically and in modern day, and the criminal justice system. Throughout history, people of color have had routinely negative experiences with the criminal justice system at every level. A person’s race and ethnicity can determine how one interacts with and experiences the criminal justice system. People of color have faced various barriers and challenges when attempting to make meaningful changes to a system that has operated in a repressive manner since it began.
About the Contributors
Authors
Dr. Sanchez is a professor in the Criminology and Criminal Justice Department at Southern Oregon University. Her primary research and teaching interests include inequitable treatment in the criminal justice system, race and ethnic relations, and teaching pedagogy. She is the co-editor of Exploitation and Criminalization at the Margins: The Hidden Toll on Unvalued Lives and a co-author for the Introduction to the American Criminal Justice System OER textbook.
Dr. Peterson is an Associate Professor in the Criminology and Criminal Justice Department at Southern Oregon University and an honorary adjunct lecturer and research associate at the University of New England in NSW, Australia. Her primary research and teaching interests include policing, discretionary decision-making by actors in the criminal justice system, rural crime and justice, and crime and media. She is the co-editor of the Bristol University Press “Research in Rural Crime” book series and co-editor of the International Journal of Rural Criminology.